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This is a great format that C-SPAN offers. | |
| You're doing a great job. | ||
| I enjoy hearing everybody's opinion. | ||
| I'm a huge C-SPAN fan. | ||
| I listen every morning on the way to work. | ||
| I think C-SPAN should be required viewing for all three branches of government. | ||
| First of all, if you say I love C-SPAN and how you'll cover these hearings. | ||
| Thank you, everyone at C-SPAN, for allowing this interaction with everyday citizens. | ||
| It's an amazing show to get real opinions from real people. | ||
| Appreciate you guys' non-biased coverage. | ||
| I love politics, and I love C-SPAN because I get to hear all the voices. | ||
| You and C-SPAN show the truth. | ||
| Back to the universe for C-SPAN. | ||
| It's the one essential news network. | ||
| Welcome back to Washington Journal. | ||
| We're in open forum. | ||
| We'll start taking your calls very soon. | ||
| Just real quick to let you know there has been a major earthquake in Afghanistan. | ||
| This is the front page of the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| It says that the earthquake kills more than 800 in Afghanistan. | ||
| And it says here that it was a magnitude 6 earthquake and it struck eastern Afghanistan near the mountainous border with Pakistan. | ||
| And going to the calls now to Joanne in North Dakota. | ||
| Republican, good morning, Joanne. | ||
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Yes, good morning, Mimi. | |
| Just as an observation, I think that the Democrats are looking at a whole age factor with Nadler stepping aside. | ||
| Because even though they had 215 House members elected this past November, three of them died. | ||
| Three of them died real soon after that election. | ||
| One's Arizona, got West Virginia, stuff like that. | ||
| And those seats are not filled like they do in the Senate. | ||
| So even though technically they got these 215, the loss of those three seats, and other people have been looking at this, those are three votes that are always going to be a no. | ||
| So no matter what the issue is that's being voted on, it's always going to be those three empty seats. | ||
| And that's a key factor right now because all these other Democrats that are over the age of say 70, 75, 78, 80, they're all stepping aside because they know that they are not going to be able to keep in office there because they're going to die. | ||
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That's just reality. | |
| Okay, Joanne, here's Joseph in Little River, South Carolina. | ||
| Democrat, you're on the air. | ||
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Yeah, I think the Democrats got to stop talking and get more defensive and get on the offense and fight back against the Republicans or they're never going to get back in shape. | |
| I think they got to start talking to the regular people, the younger people, and get their act together and figure out how they're going to do it. | ||
| And they can't just keep talking about it. | ||
| And if they don't, then we're going to lose our democracy. | ||
| And the Republicans, I don't know what they're trying to do, and Trump lose our democracy. | ||
| It don't make sense. | ||
| But the Republicans got to save it and not just talk about and get to plan and start fighting back because the elections are coming up. | ||
| And already in Texas, they're starting to lose five seats. | ||
| And what are they going to do about all this? | ||
| They got to start gaining seats somewhere else. | ||
| And they got to stop talking and take action. | ||
| All right, Joseph. | ||
| On the Independent Line in Middletown, New York, this is Allison. | ||
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Hello. | |
| Hello. | ||
| I'm inquiring about Doge and where is that money that they have acquired? | ||
| And I understood when it first arrived on the scene that Doge was going to pay the deficit, part of it at least. | ||
| I'm just inquiring, where is that money? | ||
| And this is Tim in Murfreesboro, Illinois, Republican. | ||
| Hi, Tim. | ||
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Hello. | |
| I think that they ought to put on the ballot in every state that if somebody commits murder, they get a one-day trial and executed. | ||
| It used to take 17 years to execute somebody in Illinois, but now, I don't know, it costs about a million per year per prisoner to keep somebody in prison. | ||
| If they're executed, they can save a billion, a trillion dollars because they can build more schools and less prisons. | ||
| And here's Bob in Staten Island, New York, Democrat. | ||
| Hi, Bob. | ||
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Come on, come on. | |
| I'm a little confused, you know, like what's wrong with this country? | ||
| This country is going to lost their minds. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Everybody can see that Trump, Putin have Trump in his pocket. | ||
| Everything he's doing is to destroy America. | ||
| I don't understand what's going on. | ||
| Or we're blind or living in some kind of fantasy world. | ||
| Every day I get up in the morning, I feel like I'm an episode of the Twilight Zone. | ||
| And speaking of Putin, this is on the front page of the Washington Post. | ||
| At summit, she calls for economic integration. | ||
| China's president urges 20 other leaders to help build a, quote, multipolar world. | ||
| It says that the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, on Monday, called on the leaders of countries, including Russia, Iran, and India, to integrate their economies and build a, quote, orderly, multipolar world as he tried to unite them in their shared grievances with the U.S.-led global order and the policies of President Donald Trump. | ||
| She used the platform of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit here, 90 miles southeast of Beijing, to implicitly criticize Trump's policies without naming him or mentioning the United States. | ||
| It says that he urged the 20 foreign leaders in attendance to seek integration, not decoupling, and unequivocally oppose power politics. | ||
| And this is a picture of him and Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, attending that Shanghai cooperation that happened on Monday. | ||
| And here is John in Gardena, California, Republican. | ||
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Good morning, John. | |
| Hello. | ||
| Hello. | ||
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Hi, Mimi. | |
| I'm calling. | ||
| Just kind of confused this morning because usually when I watch your show, most of your guests refer to the president of the United States as president. | ||
| But you don't correct people on that. | ||
| I'm wondering why. | ||
| You guys used to refer to Biden all the time as, oh, President Biden or Otis or anything like that. | ||
| But you get on here and you want to talk about Trump. | ||
| It's Trump. | ||
| Everything's Trump. | ||
| I'll tell you what, the Democrats need to get on board, man. | ||
| They've gone way too far left. | ||
| Everybody knows it. | ||
| Everybody's sitting there watching, sitting there looking at their moves, acting like children, doing everything they can to block an agenda that needs to happen to help with this deficit we're at. | ||
| To take a look at the insatiable appetite that the teachers have for these children in our schools. | ||
| All right, John. | ||
| Here's Frank Lindhurst, New York, Independent Line. | ||
| You're on Open Forum. | ||
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Thanks for taking my call. | |
| Yeah, I'm really sort of disappointed and confused about the country. | ||
| I'm 67 years old, and I've never seen us this divided before. | ||
| I mean, it's like ball teams, like Yankees and the Mets, okay? | ||
| You know, if you're a Yankee fan, you hate the Mets. | ||
| If you're a Mets fan, you hate the Yankees. | ||
| You know, what bothers me the most is supposedly we're supposed to be a Christian nation. | ||
| Well, you know, I was raised Catholic. | ||
| I don't practice it, but I do believe in these things. | ||
| These characteristics are the things I do believe in. | ||
| Kindness, compassion, love, empathy, understanding. | ||
| Those were supposedly the things that Jesus preached, okay? | ||
| And when I see the Republican Christians claiming to be students of this sort of teaching, and when I look at the leader that they chose, I see absolutely none of those characteristics in that man. | ||
| I've been living in New York, you know, most of my life, and I've grew up with this guy. | ||
| I never liked him. | ||
| He was always the poster boy for greed. | ||
| Now, you know, his agenda seems to be targeting laziness, you know, with all of his cuts and, you know, government workers and such like that. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| You know, laziness is a sin, supposedly, right? | ||
| And that's okay to target that. | ||
| But you know what else is a sin? | ||
| Greed is also a sin. | ||
| And I don't see any target on greed. | ||
| He himself is a felon. | ||
| He's a convicted felon. | ||
| And like I said, back in the 80s, he was the poster boy for greed. | ||
| They likened him to the character on that movie, Wall Street, played by the game. | ||
| Dennis, Toledo, Iowa, Democrat, good morning. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| If Republicans want to talk about deficits and old age, don't be surprised in 2026, Iowa will be voting for two senators because Chuck Grassy will be 93 and 92 years old, so he's old and he could kick the bucket any day. | ||
| And deposits, it was Trump who went bankrupt multiple times. | ||
| It was President Clinton who took a huge Reagan Bush deficit. | ||
| And when he left office, we had a surplus in our Treasury. | ||
| So Republicans, in my opinion, full of crap. | ||
| And thank you very much. | ||
| All right, Dennis. | ||
| And today is the 80th anniversary of VJ Day. | ||
| This is information from the World War II National Museum. | ||
| And it is, just want to read you this. | ||
| So on September 1st, 1945, this is what President Harry Truman said in an address to the nation by radio. | ||
| It says, the thoughts and hopes of all America, indeed of all the civilized world, are centered tonight on the battleship Missouri. | ||
| There on that small piece of American soil anchored in Tokyo Harbor, the Japanese have just officially laid down their arms. | ||
| They have signed terms of unconditional surrender. | ||
| The president went on to proclaim the following day, Sunday, September 2nd, to be VJ Day, the day of formal surrender by Japan. | ||
| Now, today at 11 a.m., there will be a wreath-laying ceremony commemorating that 80th anniversary, that the Allied victory in the Pacific, marking the end of World War II. | ||
| You can watch live coverage of that on C-SPAN. | ||
| Again, that's from Washington, D.C., 11 a.m. Eastern here on C-SPAN, also on our app, C-SPANNOW and online at c-span.org. | ||
| Back to the calls now to Daniel Daytona Beach, Florida, Republican. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Yes, good morning. | |
| I just want to comment on the recent developments occurring in Alaska. | ||
| When President Trump met with Putin in Alaska, a lot of attention was given. | ||
| Of course, we all know that the United States bought Alaska from Russia many years ago. | ||
| And it's ironic that what we're looking at currently is a situation of economic support for Russia from the purchasing of oil that India is supporting the war. | ||
| And it's amazing to me that people cannot see that China and India and Iran are getting together in China and they're meeting on this issue of world dominance. | ||
| And it's concerning that the American people do not realize how important oil is to the world economy. | ||
| We have our allies, Japan, Taiwan, Korea. | ||
| We have an opportunity to use the oil in Alaska to pay off the national debt, to support the American way of life. | ||
| And I'm just real proud that President Trump has been working with Alaska to get that oil into production and turning things around. | ||
| There's been big discoveries in Alaska with Bill Armstrong at PICA. | ||
| Amazing how much oil is there. | ||
| There's enough oil in Alaska to pay off our national debt, but we have to stop supporting countries that are buying their oil from Iran and countries such as India that are supporting Russia in this war. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Well, Daniel, speaking of tariffs on India, Peter Navarro was on Fox News Sunday this past Sunday. | ||
| He's the White House senior counselor, and he talked about that topic. | ||
| Take a look. | ||
| Well, let's be clear. | ||
| We have 50% tariffs now on India, but we also have a little over 50% tariffs on China. | ||
| So there's a question is how much higher do you want to go without actually hurting ourselves. | ||
| But let's talk about the India issue, because the only thing you have to know is that before Putin invaded Ukraine in February of 2022, India didn't buy Russian oil to speak of very, very small amounts. | ||
| What happened? | ||
| Well, the Russian refiners went in and got into bed with big oil in India. | ||
| Putin gives Modi a discount on the crude. | ||
| They refine it and they ship it to Europe, Africa, and Asia at a big premium, and they make a ton of money. | ||
| Now, what's wrong with that picture? | ||
| Well, it fuels the Russian war machine. | ||
| India is nothing but a launder mat for the Kremlin. | ||
| It kills Ukrainians. | ||
| And what do we have to do as taxpayers? | ||
| We've got to send them more money so Ukraine can defend themselves. | ||
| And on top of that, by the way, the 25% of the 50% is because India is the maharaj of tariffs. | ||
| They have the highest tariffs in the world. | ||
| So they export us a bunch of stuff. | ||
| They won't let us sell to them. | ||
| So who gets hurt? | ||
| Workers in America, taxpayers in America, Ukrainians in cities getting killed by Russian drones. | ||
| So, you know, look, Modi's a great leader. | ||
| I don't understand why he's getting to bed with Putin and Xi Jinping when he's the biggest democracy in the world. | ||
| So I would just simply say, the Indian people, please understand what's going on here. | ||
| You got Brahmins profiteering at the expense of the Indian people. | ||
| We need that to stop. | ||
| And back to the calls now to Joe, St. Petersburg, Florida, Independent Line. | ||
| You're on Open Forum, Joe. | ||
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Yes, hi. | |
| Both sides seem to talk about corruption. | ||
| But one thing they both do is they're trying to cover up the illegal use of technology related to anomalous health incidents like Havana syndrome. | ||
| And I believe what's going to happen is with artificial intelligence, there's going to be some proof that technologies with similar characteristics like the anomalous health incidents, Havana Sandrum, are going to be proven with an AI that they are being used within the United States by law enforcement, by FBI, and that's one of the reasons they're not admitting to it. | ||
| And there's a journalist called Who Watches We. | ||
| And they're discussing, and I believe what's not just Who Watches We, but I believe that in the coming years with artificial intelligence, there's going to be proof that there's intelligence agencies and law enforcement, again, using technology with similar characteristics as anomalous health incidents known as Havana Syndrome being illegally used in the United States. | ||
| And I fear that what government officials and intelligence officials in Washington, Virginia are going to do is try to destroy the ability of the public to use science to do scientific research to prove that there's illegal use of these types of technologies. | ||
| I understand that they use these technologies for very dangerous things and important things, but that does not give the excuse that the intelligence services and the law enforcement to use these technologies illegally in the United States because they want to cover up corruption. | ||
| And both parties are guilty of ignoring people that want to use science. | ||
| I believe that they are going to just avoid anything in any way that people have the right to scientifically research and get the help that they need to prove that there's some very illegal uses of unofficial or secret technology in the United States. | ||
| We got that point, Joe. | ||
| And this is Jim, Michigan Democrat. | ||
| Good morning, Jim. | ||
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Hi, this question's about Epstein. | |
| I'd like to know if there's any MAGAs out there that could call in and explain to me why Donald Trump, a good friend of Epstein, why he would turn her loose from maximum security prison and put her into a club, club bed, they call it. | ||
| Basically, like a just little getaway camp for her. | ||
| Why would Donald Trump do that? | ||
| And don't say Pam Bondi was responsible for this because Pam Bonnie does whatever Donald Trump wants her to do. | ||
| So please, MAGA, call in. | ||
| Let me know, because I'm a little bit confused here. | ||
| Why would Trump do that? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Welcome to today's Washington Journal. | ||
| We'll start with a Hill article, and this is the headline. | ||
| Public schools in a bind amid enrollment declines. |